Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a shaft or shafts.
- In ornithology, having the shafts (of feathers) of a specified character: used in composition: as, after shafted, red-shafted, yellow shafted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts.
- adjective (Her.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shaft . - adjective fitted with a
shaft - adjective heraldry Having a shaft and head of different
tinctures . - adjective slang
screwed (in all senses); ripped off
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Examples
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In my opinion Mr. Zaft got "shafted" (no pun intended).
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Rhodri Morgan in a farewell tribute to Mr Blair described the PM as the man who "shafted" him.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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This positive attitude even spills over to players who might feel "shafted".
Archive 2006-04-01 Wynn Williamson 2006
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That's huge for me and the manga has me looking forward to this, but I'm concerned about getting "shafted" by shoddy animation and walls of text.
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It is indicative of the weakness of the Green Party's position in government at present that, given the opportunity to influence the momentum in the EU towards a greener low-carbon European economy, my party allowed itself to be "shafted" (to quote John Gormley).
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She said that when she challenged Mr Gormley on the issue last week he informed her that she had been "shafted" politically by Fianna Fáil.
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When I challenged my leader John Gormley about one of these agreements last week, he informed me that I had been "shafted" by Fianna Fáil.
Irish Blogs Irish Election 2010
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She said that when she challenged Mr Gormley on the issue last week he informed her that she had been "shafted" politically by Fianna Fáil.
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When I challenged my leader John Gormley about one of these agreements last week, he informed me that I had been "shafted" by Fianna Fáil.
Irish Election P O'Neill 2010
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When I challenged my leader John Gormley about one of these agreements last week, he informed me that I had been "shafted" by Fianna Fáil.
Irish Blogs Irish Election 2010
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